This reminds me– has anyone ever found an intact copy of the World Out Of Comm Eval in the wild? I’d be intensely interested in reading this, but I’ve never been able to find it.

Hey, thank you so much for your reply man! And I apologize, I had just finished reading two books from former CoS memebers and then after surfing the net for awhile came across your blog, and had a brain fart thinking that one of the books was yours, sorry about that (though if you did write a book I would totally buy it :D)

I know that the bible and koran aren’t copyrightable, which is one of the reasons I had the line of logic concerning Scientology. I haven’t read on the cases concerning Christian Science but will indeed take a look, for I am curious. I had always thought it strange though that a religion can have “copyrightable scriptures”, I mean, I understand if church members wrote their own books interpreting their beliefs of their religion, and wished to copyright their books. But I firmly believe that any church that wishes to retain their tax exempt status should not be allowed to have their “scriptures” copyrighted, as it is those writings which disseminate the belief system itself, and by such if one cannot determine what the religion believes in without having to pay for it, then it is not a “religion” but a “corporation” and more resembles a pay-to-play self help system. But I digress…I understand the “intellectual property” arguments, yet, considering the very fact that the bible and koran are not copyrightable, and are also considered “scriptures” then just by using those two examples, wouldn’t they set precedence that any religion cannot copyright their “scriptures”? (such as OT materials that are considered necessary belief systems in order to spiritually advance as a being) It is a dangerous slope, you see, because it could allow anyone to just make up a system, or take an existing system, copyright it, sell it, and claim tax exemption as a religion. That could include: self-help books, cookbooks, and any other books you might imagine could be construed as “religions”. Belief systems themselves should not be allowed to be copyrighted imho, individual interpretations of said belief systems I think is fair, but not the actual “religion” itself. This is the flaw in our law(s).

Just my two cents. Keep up the great work man, I enjoy reading your blog and think it is incredibly brave of you to openly do so knowing what I know now of the CoS tactics towards people who do speak out.

First, I have no kindle book.

A religion can have intellectual property rights — there are tons of cases on this subject, many dealing with Christian Science. The bible and koran arent copyrightable, so the cases concern later religions.

Bravo! I had actually thought the same thing the very first time that I read Dianetics. One question for Mike Rinder (by the way I bought your kindle book and recommend it to anyone interested in the Co$) …my question which does pertain to this very post:
Since Judge Pfaelzer ruled that Scientology was a religion, and not a commercial corporation, and that the ruling that the upper level material (and by default all the “religious” materials) being indisputably religious, could not be protected from unauthorized use by way of commercial law. Thereby negating copyrights to ALL religious Co$ materials. Is this a fair statement? Did this ruling in effect erase the church’s hold on the copyrights?

Pretty funny movie.
It reminded me of dm.

More time to work on his tan though, Sinar. 😉